Bullfighting

The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in their world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. ''The stories, his memories, were wearing out'' the narrator of the title story thinks, ''and there was nothing new replacing them.''

The stories move from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of me...